HMCS Kokanee

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Media Type: Image
Item Type: Photographs
Description: HMCS Kokanee was a River-class frigate that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She saw action primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic as a convoy escort. After the war she was sold to India and converted into a pilot vessel.
Kokanee was ordered in October 1941 as part of the 1942-43 building program.[3][4] Named after Kokanee Lake in southeastern British Columbia, she was laid down on 25 August 1943 at Yarrows Ltd., Esquimalt and launched on 27 November 1943.[4] She was commissioned into the RCN with pennant number K419 on 6 June 1944 at the Esquimalt naval base. She departed for the Atlantic coast, arriving at HMC Dockyard in Halifax, Nova Scotia on 24 July 1944 and was tasked to Bermuda in August 1944 to work up her new crew
Date of Publication: 1944
Image Dimensions: Image Width: 2872
Image Height: 2028
Subject(s): WWII
Frigates
Local identifier: SNPL001010V00i
Collection: Jean Harvey Family Collection
Language of Item: English
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